Platform/2008-Q3-Goals

Content

• Finish up Cross-Site XHR (Jonas)
• Worker Threads (Ben)
• Inner-Outer window lifetime cleanup (Ben)
• Node Iterator (Patch done, needs to be driven in. Jonas)
• Element Traversal (Jonas)
• Make progress on XPCOMGC (Johnny)
• DOM fast path (Jason, Blake, Johnny)
• Deferred script execution (Jonas)
• Preemptive script/resource loading (Blake)
• Figure out Java plugin story for 3.1 (Johnny)
• XPCWrappedNative::CallMethod() security check removal (Blake)
• Make DOM mutation events sane (Jonas)

JS

• 40% interpreter performance improvement
• tracemonkey landed in mozilla-central
• substantial gains on JITed benchmarks
• integration of JS test suite into main reporting model
• test suite/fuzzer for loopy, type-unstable, prototype-chain mutating, shape-busting patterns
• programmatic control of profilers on linux and win32
• new standard lib features from ES3.1/ES4
• improve TT performance on Web JS
• bug 97954 (stand-alone sm) and bug 409021 (updated MMgc for TT) landed